On Friday I wrote about Facebook blocking people and groups from sharing the URL codeisfreespeech.com, a site sponsored by four California-based Second Amendment advocacy groups. I promised to update the story if I heard back from Facebook, but as of the close of business Tuesday I haven’t heard anything from press@fb.com, or in response to my telephone inquiry to Facebook’s media relations office.
The four Second Amendment advocacy groups involved in sponsoring the site haven’t heard anything from Facebook either, despite the fact that all four groups have been verified nonprofit advocacy groups with Facebook for years, regularly spend thousands of dollars advertising on Facebook’s platform, and whose administrators have all gone through Facebook’s new verification program for political speech.
On Saturday, Firearms Policy Foundation supporter Sarah Cade reported that the fundraiser she created on Facebook to benefit FPF was shut down “because it goes against our standards.” Sarah did not have a link to codeisfreespeech.com anywhere in her fundraiser – and she didn’t even mention the name of the website.
